Peavine Creek flows into the Moyie River in the East Kootenay. Provincial records show 46 stocking releases between 1929 and 1994: westslope cutthroat, rainbow trout, Kokanee and brook trout among them. Almost all of it was eyed eggs and fry rather than catchable fish, work that reads as spawning-channel and recovery stocking rather than an ongoing put-and-take program, and nothing has been recorded stocked here in over thirty years.
The water
The creek runs stream order 4 (mid-range in the network, on a scale that runs from 1 for a headwater trickle up to 6 or more for a full river) and stretches roughly 19 km before it reaches the Moyie River. Provincial fish-inventory data carries 87 records here, covering westslope cutthroat, bull trout, rainbow, Kokanee, a plain cutthroat variant, dolly varden and several other species, a solid signal for a creek this size. Prudhomme Creek joins it as a named tributary.
The fishing
No fly report, guide coverage or access note has surfaced for Peavine Creek, so the stocking record below is the closest thing to a fishing report it has. Bull trout and westslope cutthroat are the two species most consistently picked up in provincial surveys; treat any Kokanee or rainbow you find as descendants of the historical program and the resident wild population rather than an actively topped-up fishery. As a small stream this size, expect the general East Kootenay tributary read, short drifts with a buoyant attractor dry over a light dropper through pocket water and the heads of pools, though nothing here has been confirmed on the water.
The stocking record is the fishing report
Stocking
For an angler judging whether the fishing is worth the drive, the release history above is the record to trust. Peavine Creek shows no put-and-take program: 46 recorded releases across six decades of eyed-egg, fry and fingerling plants, last stocked April 11, 1994.
Peavine Creek — 1,737,110 fish stocked, 1929–1994
Rainbow Trout, Cutthroat Trout, Kokanee, Brook Trout. Source: Province of BC — FIDQ / FISS Fish Releases via the Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC.
| Year | Rainbow Trout | Cutthroat Trout | Kokanee | Brook Trout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | · | · | 50,000 | · |
| 1958 | · | · | · | 10,000 |
| 1954 | · | 8,500 | · | · |
| 1953 | · | 35,485 | · | · |
| 1950 | 8,233 | · | 30,000 | · |
| 1949 | 25,000 | · | · | · |
| 1948 | · | 19,200 | · | · |
| 1947 | 19,015 | 105,440 | · | · |
| 1946 | 17,500 | 35,965 | · | · |
| 1945 | 87,890 | 39,060 | · | · |
| 1944 | 32,385 | 23,555 | · | · |
| 1943 | 30,000 | 30,000 | · | · |
| 1942 | 30,000 | 18,220 | · | · |
| 1941 | 17,595 | 30,000 | 75,000 | · |
| 1940 | 4,867 | 53,000 | · | · |
| 1939 | · | 59,790 | · | · |
| 1938 | 26,030 | 50,380 | · | · |
| 1932 | · | 175,900 | · | · |
| 1931 | 33,400 | 190,700 | · | · |
| 1930 | · | 140,000 | · | · |
| 1929 | · | 225,000 | · | · |
Read the chart as history rather than a forecast. Whatever westslope cutthroat, rainbow and kokanee turn up today are descendants of that stocking program and the resident wild population, not fish topped up this season.
Access and the rules
No boat launch, trailhead or parking area has been confirmed for Peavine Creek, and access still needs checking on the ground before a trip. The creek drains East Kootenay ranch and forest country north of the Moyie River near Yahk; check current Forest Service Road status for the area before you commit a day.
Before you fish
Conditions
- Navigability: narrow, wade-only water (median channel width ~5.1 m, narrow to moderate; median gradient ~0.95%, very gentle; peak mean-annual discharge ~0.445 m³/s, very low flow). A gentle, low-volume creek this size fishes on foot, not from a boat.
- Stocking: conservation and recovery program only, 46 releases from 1929 to 1994, none recorded since.
